Director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis take IndieWire inside the demented delivery room for a new film distributed ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Create an account or log in to save stories. On the outskirts of Red Wing a pair of crusty old oven mitts have found themselves presented in a gallery. On each white mitt is a pair of black dots ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient ...

This discovery contradicts the prevailing notion about El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in the ancient times, ...

Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies ...

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the ...

chrysanthemum and plum blossoms each in a vase to represent peace and safety), Yao uses modern technology to transform flat shadow puppet imagery into a naked-eye 3D experience, offering a more ...

Her upper lip is the stage and a 25-year-old woman, the performer. A long stick immaculately placed atop the lip stands ...

Huang not only introduced all sorts of special effects and dynamic backdrops, he enlarged the puppets and gave them movable eyes and mouths for close-up shots. He also eschewed traditional ...